Cowboys slammed by Green in Thurston's horror final season

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Johnathan Thurston's horror final season with North Queensland has continued after the side slumped to their 12th loss of the year, and even diehard NSW fans would be feeling for the future immortal.

Thurston cut a lonely figure lying on the paddock after spilling a ball minutes before full-time in Cairns on Sunday, allowing the Rabbitohs to travel down the other end and kick a match-winning field goal through Adam Reynolds.

For the past decade it has been Thurston who was the man to deliver but he is finding out late in his Telstra Premiership career how opposing sides have felt for years when the rugby league gods were not with them.

North Queensland's season is all but over after being labelled joint premiership favourites at the start of the year, when everyone feared the 2017 grand finalists who were welcoming back Thurston and Matt Scott's from injury.

It looked like the Thurston of old in the opening half of the game against Souths, but like the result, things got harder as the game went on.